Government and Public Sector - Data Analytics Consultant (TS/SCI Clearance)

at  EY

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities. At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Applying data mining and statistical analysis techniques like hypothesis testing, segmentation, and modelling to analyze large amounts of data
• Helping our clients make data-driven decisions by working with structured and unstructured data sets, building out predictive models and advising our clients on data mining leading practices
• Building and applying data analysis algorithms (data mining, statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, text mining, etc.) as appropriate
• Designing, architecting, and developing solutions leveraging big data technology (Open Source, Hortonworks, AWS or Microsoft) to ingest, process and analyze large, disparate data sets to exceed business requirements
• Unifying, enriching, and analyzing customer data to derive new insights and opportunities
• Leveraging in-house data platforms as needed and recommending and building new data platforms/solutions as required to exceed business requirements
• Clearly communicating findings, recommendations, and opportunities to improve data systems and solutions
• Demonstrating deep understanding of and ability to teach data science, concepts, tools, features, functions, and benefits of different approaches to apply them
• Seeking out information to learn about emerging methodologies and technologies
• Clarifying problems by driving to understand the true issue
• Looking for opportunities for improving methods and outcomes
• Applying data driven approach (KPIs) in tying technology solutions to specific business outcomes
• Collaborating, influencing, and building consensus through constructive relationships and effective listening
• Solving problems by incorporating data into decision making

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You’ll spend most of your time working with a wide variety of clients to deliver the latest data science and big data technologies and practices to design, build and maintain scalable and robust solutions that unify, enrich and analyze data from multiple sources.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE

• Candidate must have an active Top-Secret TSI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 1-2+ year of hands-on experience with data science, big data, or data engineering
• Extensive experience connecting to various data sources and structures: APIs, NoSQL, RDBMS, Hadoop, S3, Blob Storage, etc.
• Deep understanding of statistical modeling as well as ETL, data ingestion/cleansing and engineering skills
• Ability to set up data and experimental platforms
• Must have 1 of the following: Python, R, SAS, Java/C# or Scala
• Must have 1 of the following: SQL, Hive, Pig
• Machine learning using k-NN, naive bayes, decision trees, SVM experience required
• Experience using data mining and statistical tools
• Solid pattern recognition and predictive modelling skills
• Recommendation engines, scoring systems, A/B testing
• Must have worked with multiple tools/libraries such as Weka, NumPy, PyMongo, R, etc.
• Hands-on experience with various big data technologies in one or more ecosystems (Hadoop, AWS or Microsoft)